Many "human rights" are built upon concepts which cannot be proven by fact
Such as? Not wanting people to come kill me because they don't like what I believe or do? That's pretty easy to prove.
opposed by the current body of knowledge
This is key, very key. Science is entirely focused on increasing this body of knowledge. Religion? not so much. At a given time, yes the current knowledge may not support something specific, but you don't get governments imposing things like "don't eat broccoli on tuesdays" just out of thin air either. There's a reason that society does stuff and that is accumulated knowledge and experience. Religion does it because a book written down over a 1000 years ago says so.
I remember a statement that a man who lived in the year 1000 would be considered wildly ignorant today, and yet could likely also be a religious scholar. One area has expanded its knowledge, the other has remained pretty static.
several major religious sects support teaching evolution
And they believe in things that are simply not based on anything other than 'belief'. They can support evolution all they want, but when they want to claim that we are reincarnated, with absolutely no proof of that...sorry, it's smoky magic and voodoo at it's core.
The very nature of religion is belief in something other than science, believe that there is some higher meaning/power/purpose to life. Science doesn't overtly discount that notion but does require proof of its existence prior to enshrining any weight to the belief.
People who want to smite their neighbors will make up a reason to do it, religion or no
Far far far more people have been killed in the name of religion than anything else. As heard recently, the Bible has more death penalty statutes than Texas (but don't tell Texas they might feel insecure!). Perhaps a joke, but you don't hear about those things in modern pleasant society. Yet they aren't removed from the Bible...
However, I would point out that the separation of church and state, which you elegantly and passionately summarize here, is itself not based on "cold hard facts." It's ideology. Not all ideology is bad.
I would disagree. It was seeing that ideology is bad and setting forth the plan to keep ideology based on phantoms and mystics 'out' of our governance. You can call that an 'ideology' if you wish, but it's an ideology bent on observable fact and results and repeatable provable facts; or reality in another name:)
The christian/jew/muslim can preach from THEIR pulpit...i.e. church.
Education is not religion and isn't treated as such. We don't force religion on anyone because it doesn't help you. Forcing an education on you DOES help you....and the rest of us who would have to support your sorry ignorant ass.
they never managed to separate religion from politics
Did they even try?
I'm not sayin religion is bad
Then I will. Religion exists because lights in the sky go boom and it doesn't rain when you want it to and things happen you can't understand.
Guess what, today we can understand those things and so religion is quite literally at odds with modern life. Sure we dress it up and ignore the ugly parts 'we' don't like but then somebody else decides, hey smiting neighbors is a good thing and justifies it with the Bible or whatever your religious source is.
If it ain't based on cold hard facts it has no business governing anyone other than the individual who believes it.
Having a password reader on your laptop that unlocks your other passwords is a security risk. The Feds can require you to input your fingerprint; ala taking your fingerprints. So they can make you unlock your device and everything else associated with it, no 4th/5th amendment issues at all.
Yeah well even the summary still doesn't attribute all lost homes to the nuclear accident as you claim.
The Summary says that the effects from the 'accident' (the reactor) include PTSD for people who lost their homes. That's quite clearly attributing tsunami issues since far more people 'lost' homes to the tsunami than to the reactor failure...which isn't a fair metric.
I will happily take the RTFA blame as I didn't, but the summary is still quite clearly 'bad'.
Article title does JUST that. Summary talks specifically about the PTSD for people who lost homes. Which happened significantly outside Fukushima Prefecture (as well as in it)
Further from the summary:
traveled to Fukushima prefecture and found evidence of an enormous mental strain from the accident
Note 'ACCIDENT', not disaster, accident; i.e. the NUCLEAR PLANT.
Or even more reason to be afraid...IIRC part of the problem was they weren't telling people how bad it really was wasn't it?
That said "among those who lost their homes" would seem to include the many thousands of tsunami victims rather than just the ones displaced due to the nuclear issues.
Attributing that to Fukushima isn't a fair metric (and I'm one to widely denounce nuclear power...)
Sinking? Net job growth almost every month since taking office is 'sinking'?
Perhaps look at the massive fiscal hole Obama was handed and see where we're going before saying we're 'sinking'... Things are getting better and would be better yet had we invested more in the US rather than tried to cut spending during a recession.
All of us balance our own checkbook at the end of every single month
A very large portion of America is heavily in debt. So saying we 'balance' our checkbooks is a bit specious. We have loans that cover what we choose not to pay now. As long as other countries are willing to lend us money, we're fine. And we've got literally decades before that willingness to lend us money stops.
We need to deal with spending/income balance in the long term, but in the short term, it's a fools errand to try and balance things as that will only continue more crises coming down the pike at very regular intervals.
I would favor keeping the old repo around read only
The bean counters sadly wouldn't favor such unnecessary expense. And legal won't let you do it...
I understand your point but reality doesn't always nicely fit what would work best. That said, hopefully it is an odd case and you aren't switching source control vendors too often;-)
When you switch version control software...you often lose your history and ability to see what was done before. Doesn't mean leave a million lines commented, but some here and there is reasonable.
Don't do that. I.e. you can mitigate a sedentary job by doing activity. But you have to do it AT THE SAME TIME. You can't undo a decade of sedentary lifestyle with no exercise.
Activity doesn't allow the muscles to relax
Actually regular exercise is the best way to keep your muscles in good shape and healthy and...relaxed.
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Many "human rights" are built upon concepts which cannot be proven by fact
Such as? Not wanting people to come kill me because they don't like what I believe or do? That's pretty easy to prove.
opposed by the current body of knowledge
This is key, very key. Science is entirely focused on increasing this body of knowledge. Religion? not so much. At a given time, yes the current knowledge may not support something specific, but you don't get governments imposing things like "don't eat broccoli on tuesdays" just out of thin air either. There's a reason that society does stuff and that is accumulated knowledge and experience. Religion does it because a book written down over a 1000 years ago says so.
I remember a statement that a man who lived in the year 1000 would be considered wildly ignorant today, and yet could likely also be a religious scholar. One area has expanded its knowledge, the other has remained pretty static.
several major religious sects support teaching evolution
And they believe in things that are simply not based on anything other than 'belief'. They can support evolution all they want, but when they want to claim that we are reincarnated, with absolutely no proof of that...sorry, it's smoky magic and voodoo at it's core.
The very nature of religion is belief in something other than science, believe that there is some higher meaning/power/purpose to life. Science doesn't overtly discount that notion but does require proof of its existence prior to enshrining any weight to the belief.
People who want to smite their neighbors will make up a reason to do it, religion or no
Far far far more people have been killed in the name of religion than anything else. As heard recently, the Bible has more death penalty statutes than Texas (but don't tell Texas they might feel insecure!). Perhaps a joke, but you don't hear about those things in modern pleasant society. Yet they aren't removed from the Bible...
However, I would point out that the separation of church and state, which you elegantly and passionately summarize here, is itself not based on "cold hard facts." It's ideology. Not all ideology is bad.
I would disagree. It was seeing that ideology is bad and setting forth the plan to keep ideology based on phantoms and mystics 'out' of our governance. You can call that an 'ideology' if you wish, but it's an ideology bent on observable fact and results and repeatable provable facts; or reality in another name :)
Then I grab my religious headgear, I mean colander, and have dinner ;-)
The hilarious part, at least in the US, is that the bible thumpers are 'generally' the most vocal 'free market less gubmint' types.
And yet they deny evolution which the most totally 'free market' we know of. It's literally kill or be killed, survive, adapt or die.
The christian/jew/muslim can preach from THEIR pulpit...i.e. church.
Education is not religion and isn't treated as such. We don't force religion on anyone because it doesn't help you. Forcing an education on you DOES help you....and the rest of us who would have to support your sorry ignorant ass.
they never managed to separate religion from politics
Did they even try?
I'm not sayin religion is bad
Then I will. Religion exists because lights in the sky go boom and it doesn't rain when you want it to and things happen you can't understand.
Guess what, today we can understand those things and so religion is quite literally at odds with modern life. Sure we dress it up and ignore the ugly parts 'we' don't like but then somebody else decides, hey smiting neighbors is a good thing and justifies it with the Bible or whatever your religious source is.
If it ain't based on cold hard facts it has no business governing anyone other than the individual who believes it.
Having a password reader on your laptop that unlocks your other passwords is a security risk. The Feds can require you to input your fingerprint; ala taking your fingerprints. So they can make you unlock your device and everything else associated with it, no 4th/5th amendment issues at all.
The best thing about A password is it's in your head.
That's also the worst thing about MULTIPLE passwords. But in the head only is a very secure concept.
Yeah well even the summary still doesn't attribute all lost homes to the nuclear accident as you claim.
The Summary says that the effects from the 'accident' (the reactor) include PTSD for people who lost their homes. That's quite clearly attributing tsunami issues since far more people 'lost' homes to the tsunami than to the reactor failure...which isn't a fair metric.
I will happily take the RTFA blame as I didn't, but the summary is still quite clearly 'bad'.
Article title does JUST that. Summary talks specifically about the PTSD for people who lost homes. Which happened significantly outside Fukushima Prefecture (as well as in it)
Further from the summary:
traveled to Fukushima prefecture and found evidence of an enormous mental strain from the accident
Note 'ACCIDENT', not disaster, accident; i.e. the NUCLEAR PLANT.
Same goes for Chernobyl...what's your point?
Or even more reason to be afraid...IIRC part of the problem was they weren't telling people how bad it really was wasn't it?
That said "among those who lost their homes" would seem to include the many thousands of tsunami victims rather than just the ones displaced due to the nuclear issues.
Attributing that to Fukushima isn't a fair metric (and I'm one to widely denounce nuclear power...)
How many people really want a bright orange monstrosity on or under their desk that screams, "LOVE CHILD OF A COMPUTER AND AN ERECTOR SET!!"?
Don't ask questions you don't want the answer to...
Because it doesn't involve horses?
Followed by: "How can I tell the users I'm really just a monkey?"
Look at the rise in food stamps
Recessions have a tendency to increase such needs...what caused the recession again? Oh yeah, GOP policies
healthy young people collecting social security
Sources plz
free cell phone program
You mean this? It was started by REAGAN, that bloody liberal.
That 'wireless' part of it?
"its first cellular provider service (SafeLink Wireless) was launched by TracFone in 2008, during the administration of George W. Bush"
gerrymandering is something voters on both sides need to stand up against
This. We need political entities out of the district drawing process. I've heard suggestions for retired judges as a possible solution.
The part where he decides that women have to carry their rapists babies?
Or the part where he tells old people they have to buy insurance on the open market with a voucher that doesn't keep cost with healthcare?
Or the part where he'd put Soc Sec into the free market and let it be washed away in a market crash caused by his 'anti-regulation' stance?
Sinking? Net job growth almost every month since taking office is 'sinking'?
Perhaps look at the massive fiscal hole Obama was handed and see where we're going before saying we're 'sinking'... Things are getting better and would be better yet had we invested more in the US rather than tried to cut spending during a recession.
All of us balance our own checkbook at the end of every single month
A very large portion of America is heavily in debt. So saying we 'balance' our checkbooks is a bit specious. We have loans that cover what we choose not to pay now. As long as other countries are willing to lend us money, we're fine. And we've got literally decades before that willingness to lend us money stops.
We need to deal with spending/income balance in the long term, but in the short term, it's a fools errand to try and balance things as that will only continue more crises coming down the pike at very regular intervals.
I would favor keeping the old repo around read only
The bean counters sadly wouldn't favor such unnecessary expense. And legal won't let you do it...
;-)
I understand your point but reality doesn't always nicely fit what would work best. That said, hopefully it is an odd case and you aren't switching source control vendors too often
When you switch version control software...you often lose your history and ability to see what was done before. Doesn't mean leave a million lines commented, but some here and there is reasonable.
due to years of being sedentary
Don't do that. I.e. you can mitigate a sedentary job by doing activity. But you have to do it AT THE SAME TIME. You can't undo a decade of sedentary lifestyle with no exercise.
Activity doesn't allow the muscles to relax
Actually regular exercise is the best way to keep your muscles in good shape and healthy and...relaxed.
You know what else is noise? The grief of 40+ parents without their children...
Well, what's it gonna be boy, tittes or boobs? I can't wait all night. What's it gonna be boy, titties or boobs?